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Show ANTWERP FIRMS 'CLAIM , BJ DAMAGES FOR ACTION ; B OF BRITI8H TROOPS B : H Amsterdam, Oct. 2".' Tho Cologne BBJ Cazotto sajB that fifty commercial JlnBl houses of Antwoip havo sent a pro- MlBI test to tho American minister against ' H(BI tho destruction ot tjlolr stocks of lifll goods by tho Biitlsh beforo tholr ro- IIiBI trent. Thoy domand from tho British lIlBl government an Indemnification to ' llM nmount of 230,000,000 francs as tho iffl dcstVUL'tlon of tho)r'J' goods, they I Hfl claim, was not occuslonod by the do- llifl fenso of tho town, 'but was willfully IvIBI carried out by tho rotrcntlng British BJ troops during tho evrfclmtlon. IWfl Irsb1 |